# The human experience

*What it is like to be a person learning in public, one moment at a time.*

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Topic · A walk

What it is like to be a person learning in public, one moment at a time.

2 pieces

-   **Mīmāṃsā** Jun 15, 2025 [The act keeps its own books](/darsana/mimamsa)
    
    The school that defended the Vedic rite when the Buddhists had all but buried it: the word is older than the god, a text with no author cannot be wrong, and nobody is needed to pay out the fruit of an act.
    
    [Philosophy](/topics/philosophy)
    
-   **Yoga** Oct 8, 2023 [A road out of the clay](/darsana/yoga)
    
    Sāṃkhya explained how consciousness gets caught in matter, and admitted it had no way out. Patañjali's Yoga is that way: a discipline rather than a theory, and the word does not mean what the studios think it means.
    
    [Philosophy](/topics/philosophy) [Yoga and the mind](/topics/mind)
    

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